MURDER TRIAL
Mustard’s attrorneys
attribute crime to his
many mental problems
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neighbor, 87-year-old Ruby
Andrews.
He pleaded innocent by
insanity to the murder, and
lawyers in Kitsap County
Superior Court this week presented some of their first witnesses to determine his level
of psychological competence
when he killed Andrews.
They interviewed Ruby
Andrews’ husband, 91-year-old
Earl J. Andrews, on Monday
morning.
On April 5, 2009, Earl left
Ruby alone to cook dinner
while he went to pick up their
adult son, Brian Andrews.
When Earl and Brian
got home, between 4 p.m.
and 4:30 p.m., Earl noticed
right away the couple’s 1993
Cadillac DeVille wasn’t
parked in the driveway where
he left it.
At first, he thought Ruby

took the car to get some special
food for Brian.
Then he noticed their neighbor, Willard Means, standing
in the driveway.
Means said he saw a man
get into the car and drive away
shortly before Brian and Earl
returned.
Earl went into the house
calling Ruby’s name, but he got
no response.
He didn’t notice anything in
disarray because he “was just
looking for Ruby,” he said.
He found her lying on her
back in a pool of blood on the
floor of her bathroom.
He reached down to touch
her hand, and that’s when
he “realized that she passed
away.”
The Andrews’ neighbor, a
nurse, came in and noticed
that Earl and Brian seemed to
be going into shock.
She told them to leave before
they “messed up any evidence,”
said Earl.
Lawyers presented that evidence, and other crime-related
items to the jury.
They showed Mustard’s
shoes, which had spots of
blood on them. They showed

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unusual guns, which Earl
Andrews identified as having
been stolen from his home.
Police also interviewed the
deputies who collected evidence and interviewed related
individuals following the murder.
They talked with Mustard’s

girlfriend, and she told them
Mustard told her several
months before that he’d killed a
couple of boys in California.
She thought he was just joking.
Then he told her that he’d
killed someone again. This
time, a lady.

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Again, she thought he was
joking.
But when she heard about
the murder through the news,
she thought she should tell
someone what Mustard told
her.
Throughout the trial,
Mustard sat at the front of the

room looking down, at several
points rubbing his eyes.
His parents sat behind him.
Earl Andrews sat through
the testimony, on the opposite side of the room as the
Mustards.
The trial is expected to last
for several weeks.

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